Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-25
CLEVELAND AND SILVER.

Mr.. Cleveland, it is said, is seriously
contemplating western tour. That he
will be cordially welcomed and grandly
entertained, goes without saying. Inc
West would Ie very glad indeed
see Mr.. Cleveland Apart from the
satisfaction of personally welcoming
the Chief Magistrate whose ability
and devotion has given the country one
of the greatest OF its Administrations, the
Western people have business with Mr.
Cleveland, and he has business with
them. 1t has been an open secret Tor
many months that our able Chief Magis-
trate has greatly modified his views on
the paramount importance of gold. bis
keen business insight has asserted
itself. His business instinct has
revolted, refusing to be longer bound by
financial fallacy. He has emancipated
himself in great measure from the fet-
ters of the gold chimera, and it only
needs a personal visit to the Western
home of silver to complete that
emancipation. Silver speaks for itself
everywhere, but in the West 1t
proves its words as they are Mt
tered. Fairness and justness eminently
characterize Mr.. Cleveland. Fairness
and iustness is all the West asks in
the Judgment of silver. Once here, once
brought face to face with the practical
results of the work of the white metal
Mr.. Cleveland can no longer hesitate.
He will make, with his characteristic
vigor and attention to details, a thorough
and complete examination He will
closely inspect our great mining
interests; he will dive deep into Western
business interests; he will investigate,
weigh and consider. He will see the
vastness of the interests involved; he
will realize that the pulse of silver is the
heart-throb of the West he will recog-
nize that the encouragement Of silver
means the fostering of development ;
that the freedom of the white metal is
the liberty of business; that the coinage
of silver bears the stamp oi
prosperity; that silver is the peoples
money, and that justice to silver is JUS
tice to the Nation. We say justice to
the Nation, for the mission Of sill
yer is to all sections OF the country alike.
1t is not confined to the West alone.
Wherever the masses congregate, there
will silver do its benefcent work. Where
ever the people need money, there will
silver be the source of supply. West and
East, North and South, is the open hand
of silver extended. 1t is Natures gift
to the people, free and unreserved. 1t is
the necessaries of life. 1t is the comfort
of the laboring man. II is universal in
application. 1t is glorious in effect. Ii
is the prosperity of all. And therefore
the West wishes to see Mr.. Cleve-
land. Therefore Mr.. Cleveland
wishes to see the West. The West offers
not only to Mr.. Cleveland the proverbial
open hand of Western hospitality. 1t
offers him fame and honor beyond even
what he has already achieved. 1t offers
him popular diadem whose luster shall
be the guide of the generations yet to
come. 1t offers him the gratitude of the
present, and the blessings of the future.
1t offers him the opportunity to pluck
he crown of silver from the mire in
which it has been SO long trodden, and
to place it upon the brows of the Ma.
ton.